Food price inflation, political stagnation and rapid population growth have fanned the fires of discontent among the enormous numbers of young people in the Middle East and north Africa who are unemployed and progressively better-educated .
As this week’s beyondbrics chart shows (below the break), the region has the highest rate of unemployment in the world and the second-slowest rate of economic growth – beating only the stagnant developed world. In terms of youth unemployment, though, it is in a losing class all of its own.
More than 60 per cent of the region’s population are under 25 years old and their prospects are grim.
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